bracelet

bracelet

bracelet

3: PERSONAL ARTIFACTS

ADORNMENT:

Seminole

Multicolored strip of glass beads with bead loop at one end and a plastic button at the other.

Multicolored strip of glass, seed beads with bead loop at one end and a plastic button at the other end. The strip is eleven beads wide for most of its length, tapering over four rows at each end and to three beads wide. A single strand of dark red beads forms a loop 3/4” long on one end, which appears to be strung onto the ends of the same, white thread used to weave the strip. The body of the strip is loom woven beadwork with a background color of bright yellow. There is a red and white thunderbird design in the center, flanked on both sides with wide arrows composed of black, white, and brightened beads. that point away from the bird. These two arrows are framed by two more arrows that point towards the center of the strip and are composed of bright red, green, black, and white beads. The two sides are symmetrical, except the left wing of the bird has a single line of black beads that extends from the back end of the arrow to the center of the bird. The head of the bird faces to the right. At the end of the strip, opposite the dark red loop a bright green plastic button is sewn on with white thread. This button and loop could be used to fasten the strip around something. It appears to be the right size to be an adult bracelet. The design is the same on both sides of the piece, other than the button being sewn on the top side.

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
personal adornment

7” L

3/4” W

1951 1955 own/col

glass seed bead button(plastic) thread(cotton)

woven(loom) strung sewn(hand)

Seminole

EXCEL

Davis, Hilda J. -donation

Davis, Hilda J. anthropological/ethnological
field

1984-06-0029

object

FL

USA

NA

2010 RECAT: Jodie Perkins

2010 RECAT: green plastic button, green, yellow, black, and dark red seed beads match with those used for 1984-06-0030. In addition, identical size and technique. Therefore, although these do not appear to be a set, they may have been made by the same person.

Downs, Dorothy. 1995. Art of the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Indians. p.147-157. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. (on loomed beadwork)

Indiana University/Mathers Museum